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"Somaliwood: Columbus Has Become A Haven for Somali Filmmaking". The Other Paper. 2007-04-19; Xodo, Chiara (August 2008). "Catalogo Audiovisivi (con schede didattiche)" (PDF). Centro Interculturale Millevoci, Provincia Autonoma di Trento Dipartimento Istruzione. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-22
In 1984-1985, the Somali playwright and filmmaker Said Salah Ahmed directed his first feature film, The Somali Darwish (alt. The Somalia Dervishes ), with Amar Sneh serving as producer. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] With a budget of $1.8 million, the 4-hour-and-40-minute epic was devoted to the Dervish State.
Mother Mother is a 2024 drama film written and directed by K'naan Warsame, [1] in his directorial debut after being previously best known as a hip hop musician. The film stars Maan Youssouf Ahmed as Qalifo, a widowed mother in Somalia who must go to extraordinary lengths to restore the peace after her son, Asad (Elmi Rashid Elmi), is drawn into a violent confrontation with American tourist ...
Pages in category "Somali-language films" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Somaliwood is an informal name for the Somali film industry that has developed in Columbus, Ohio, where a large Somali diaspora exists. [1] [2] [3] Following the model of Bollywood, the name is a portmanteau of the words "Somali" and "Hollywood", the center of the American film industry.
The Somali Dervish was an epic film directed by Said Salah and Amar Sneh between 1983 and 1985. It is one of the few full-length feature films to have been produced in Somalia. [1] With a budget of $1.8 million, the 4-hour-and-40-minute epic followed the life of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, leader of the Somali Dervish movement.
An Arab television drama or Arab soap opera (also known as musalsal (Arabic: مسلسل), plural musalsalat (Arabic: مسلسلات)) is a television form of melodramatic serialized fiction. [1] The musalsalat are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas . [ 1 ]
The Rahanweyn (Maay: Reewin, Somali: Raxanweyn, Arabic: رحنوين), also known as the Digil and Mirifle (Somali: Digil iyo Mirifle) is a major Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large territory in the densely populated fertile valleys of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers and the areas inbetween, which ...